@@StoneyRidgeFarmerI don't know if you can grow winter wheat in your area, but the ranchers in my area that also grow wheat will plant their winter wheat roughly a month early and graze it until roughly mid-March. It might be worth seeing if you can no-till it into a small portion of your pasture grasses to see if it's a viable way to reduce winter hay consumption.
I feel your pain with the drought happening. I am in SW Pennsylvania and we are in a drought also. Pastures are scary. I have been able to chop some hay fields for feed but running out of hayfields. I am praying for rain everyday. Rain all around us but storms fall apart when they get over us. Praying for rain for all of us, farmer rod
1. "HOO IM A STINKY DOG AND IIIIIII LOVE IT!!" He's happy 😂 2. We used to have a saying in Florida: Every day is a vacation when you do what you love. I like how people around Appalachia say "you don't need a vacation if you love what you do." Keep up the good work and Thanks 🍻
Hint to remember that a sprinkler is on, we have little wrist bands at each tap so when you turn the tap on you put the wristband on so you'll have a reminder.
Good video Josh. I think people enjoy these day in the life type videos. You have done a great job on your farm creating all your pasture. That place will be golden in a few years when you can bring in your own hay. I am on a 50ft subdivision lot in Florida so watching you up there in God's country is fun for me. Praying you get some rain this weekend.
Trying to leave a sincere comment here: I've been on and off about your channel for a while now but lately I've been seeing your videos where you open up about your personal life a little bit (like mrs. stoneyridge, talking about your vehicles and servicing them, and dropping absolute truth bombs about the state of the world as it relates to farming. I'm really starting to enjoy your channel and your videos and I hope you're successful with yourtube for the rest of your life.
Here's a great tip on transporting 5 gallon buckets of water in a truck, tractor, 4x4 or Gator...fill them 75% full and put an empty 5 gal. bucket on the top of each one. No more major slosh losses.
A few years ago. we were having the hay custom baled. The operator knew how much fertilizer he father in law used. Our meadows were smooth and the yield was 2.5x his father-in-law's. He asked how much fertilizer we used. I enjoyed my brother's answer ... 1984 ... the great feat he used our meadows to train his son how to hay. good soil treatment is better than throwing away N P K
7:24 my grandparents had many a dogs after Thelma was hit by a truck. Some were so bad that they had to run them on a chain with the four wheeler. Then they got daisy. Great dog for them. She still lives out there even after they have gone. Good memory’s.
Josh... have you ever had a strong wind from a TS blow over the chicken coop?? It looks to have a fairly high CG. 18:15- Sell some cows? How about selling one or two (or three) vehicles from your fleet of cars/trucks? 🙂 Great Video!!!
what on earth would a farm truck have to do with the amount of animals the farm can sustain lol...you must understand that I don't just "farm" for a living my friend....as for the coop...havn't had any issues yet...it's been in 70mph sustained winds with no problems...the reason is because the top is open to allow wind to pass through instead of making a giant sail
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I took your thought of maybe selling some cows as a revenue raising opportunity, not reducing the number of mouths to feed... haha 🙂
I tune in with the Title and I think, 'Good Lord, what did he break now?'. LOL You sent your Naco-lina heat up here to MN! I used to look at that Hot or not site (wire) tehehe! Black Australorp is a friendly chicken! I'd suggest White Delaware as well. And Brown is Brave Chicken! Always enjoy your content. You're making landmarks, it seems! WOOO!!!
If you have a fox problem I'm sure you could find some hunters that can call in fox and coyotes with an electric game caller.the big hay bales make a great place to hide in.
Have you considered planting some of your paddocks in native warm season grasses? They thrive on poor soil and dry weather. I've read that planting 25-30% of your pastures in warm season grasses can help avoid the need for hay in the summer. And the cows supposedly gain more weight as well.
If leaving sprinkler on all night is the worst you've done this summer, we'll done perhaps double overseed grass again nice seeing lawn come in, I thought you were going to sing that song 🎵 & you did Josh well done. Is that a yellow rubber chicken in chicken enclosure? Looking great it's really coming together nicely
Followed mom too closely? Nursed from the rear. Always stuck in a fence? I set my phones alarm to prevent overwatering otherwise it happens often, usually just a couple of hours extra.😊
Lost my girls all but 3 and 2 roosters to weasels. Building a different structure, Aka Fort Klucx lol. Double wire, wire skirt on the ground ,and plywood around the bottom. Unfortunately, I can't do a chicken tractor on my steep yard.
When you think, "did I do x", you should just satisfy your curiosity and save kicking yourself, or you can kick yourself when you check and realize you had done x and got out to check on it when you forgot.😊 Making "to do" lists is easier than ever with smart phones, but one still has to remember to look at the list🙄. Staying busy means you'll make some human slip ups now and again.
yeppers...our well is solar....but watering 85 acres is a monumental expense and undertaking...the PVC chicken tractor is here...but this is a different setup for grazing and pasture growth
You ever thought about switching to goats or sheep? Better for the size of your acerage and easier for regenerative agriculture. And dollars out more per acre alot of the times.
It'd to bad that you have no help, but you are doing an amazing job and doing it they only way it should be done. It would be nice if you could get some co-op students who are almost done with their schooling in ag and would help you a lot and give them some real-life experience, which probably 75% of the kids don't have
Did you get any of the rain Wednesday night through Thursday? We got 2.5-3” here off 158. Nice and slow - almost no runoff. I couldn’t get radar to show part of the time so wasn’t sure about y’all up north.
I'm looking for some help. I have a raccoon problem getting in my sweet corn. I have 10 rows at 30'x160'. I have 5 strains of the electric rope. My lowest is 5" off the ground then 6" up from the 5 then... I have scarecrows and I recently bought 4 solar lights/ultrasonic sound noise maker that are motion detected. Anything else? I can't afford that netting fence. Down the line is there anyway to attach cattle panels to a T-post and electrify it? I've seen a few here and there on FB Marketplace for $5-$10 I just don't know how you would keep them off the T-post so you could charge them.
Very expensive. A mix of millet, annual rye and the perennial grass of his choice is a good idea. The first two will come up and stabilize. The grass will come up later. The first two will die off but take a while for roots to rot while the grass takes over. Josh probably won't do this as he is picky about how his grass looks and this is an area visitors will see. Barren ruts don't look good. Grass needs lots of water to get established and is almost impossible in the summer.
it's not mine...sorry I couldn't tell ya...but it's way overkill for hauling just hay. Dual tandums...and a ram 5500 ...I'd say this rig could haul what a tractor trailer could haul in the 1970s!
Amazing. Do you have the expense annual or quarterly of buying hay. When you said 10k honestly my mouth dropped.
Every year 200 bales to get us through winter
I was reading the transcript… it said $110,000.
@@StoneyRidgeFarmerI don't know if you can grow winter wheat in your area, but the ranchers in my area that also grow wheat will plant their winter wheat roughly a month early and graze it until roughly mid-March. It might be worth seeing if you can no-till it into a small portion of your pasture grasses to see if it's a viable way to reduce winter hay consumption.
I'll be praying for rain for you josh everyone do the rain dance for all the farmers out here🇺🇸
Hi Stoney,in 1981 to 1984 i was studying law inforcement in South Carolina,Charleston,i am from Saudi Arabia,America is great country.
I feel your pain with the drought happening. I am in SW Pennsylvania and we are in a drought also. Pastures are scary. I have been able to chop some hay fields for feed but running out of hayfields. I am praying for rain everyday. Rain all around us but storms fall apart when they get over us. Praying for rain for all of us, farmer rod
Good video. Hope you get some rain soon. It does look dry for sure. I couldn't stop laughing at the last blupper! Thanks.
Nice vid... though you were going sliping sliding for a moment 😊.. stay safe 🏴
lol me too!
I can see you really enjoy running the farm. It seems like so much work but at the same time seems so rewarding and peaceful . God Bless.
1. "HOO IM A STINKY DOG AND IIIIIII LOVE IT!!" He's happy 😂
2. We used to have a saying in Florida: Every day is a vacation when you do what you love.
I like how people around Appalachia say "you don't need a vacation if you love what you do."
Keep up the good work and Thanks 🍻
Hint to remember that a sprinkler is on, we have little wrist bands at each tap so when you turn the tap on you put the wristband on so you'll have a reminder.
I am impressed by the capacity you have to do all you do!
Good video Josh. I think people enjoy these day in the life type videos. You have done a great job on your farm creating all your pasture. That place will be golden in a few years when you can bring in your own hay. I am on a 50ft subdivision lot in Florida so watching you up there in God's country is fun for me. Praying you get some rain this weekend.
Trying to leave a sincere comment here: I've been on and off about your channel for a while now but lately I've been seeing your videos where you open up about your personal life a little bit (like mrs. stoneyridge, talking about your vehicles and servicing them, and dropping absolute truth bombs about the state of the world as it relates to farming. I'm really starting to enjoy your channel and your videos and I hope you're successful with yourtube for the rest of your life.
Hope fully you get rain soon. We have also bin dry here in NW Alabama
WOOOOOOO!
None of the girls are afraid to cross the road anymore!
I know....it's great how they've been trained! Great comment Rod! Thanks!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer You're welcome.
I LOVE the cows!! At one moment it looked like your phone was going to be stepped on!
Gopros are pretty tough...I don't film my content with my phone...at any given time there's 2-4 cameras rolling here...mostly gopro
Thanks , tight spots on that fence !
Beautiful farm.🙏🇺🇲🇺🇲
Here's a great tip on transporting 5 gallon buckets of water in a truck, tractor, 4x4 or Gator...fill them 75% full and put an empty 5 gal. bucket on the top of each one. No more major slosh losses.
A few years ago. we were having the hay custom baled. The operator knew how much fertilizer he father in law used. Our meadows were smooth and the yield was 2.5x his father-in-law's. He asked how much fertilizer we used. I enjoyed my brother's answer ... 1984 ... the great feat he used our meadows to train his son how to hay.
good soil treatment is better than throwing away N P K
Hey Josh thank you for the video Woo
Buy a timer for the water hose, you can’t forget then
I;m in SE Tennessee. last year we had no rain, this year we have had too much. Go figure.
great looking animals
7:24 my grandparents had many a dogs after Thelma was hit by a truck. Some were so bad that they had to run them on a chain with the four wheeler. Then they got daisy. Great dog for them. She still lives out there even after they have gone. Good memory’s.
Good Morning !! 🌹🌹🌹
Hope you get some rain. we need some dry weather here. I checked gauge yesterday & had 3.5" & still raining today.
Another excellent video Josh 😮😊❤
Josh already said a quick prayer before you requested. Lord sent them some rain.
GREAT GREAT VIDEO !! 👍🏼👊🏻
You better get to cracking on that grass on that hillside. Hurricane season is a coming.
Good video, Josh.
I used that fence and charger for years. Works well but a pain to move all the time. Do to overhead predators I built a 50x100 net covered pen.
Josh... have you ever had a strong wind from a TS blow over the chicken coop?? It looks to have a fairly high CG.
18:15- Sell some cows? How about selling one or two (or three) vehicles from your fleet of cars/trucks? 🙂 Great Video!!!
what on earth would a farm truck have to do with the amount of animals the farm can sustain lol...you must understand that I don't just "farm" for a living my friend....as for the coop...havn't had any issues yet...it's been in 70mph sustained winds with no problems...the reason is because the top is open to allow wind to pass through instead of making a giant sail
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I took your thought of maybe selling some cows as a revenue raising opportunity, not reducing the number of mouths to feed... haha 🙂
I tune in with the Title and I think, 'Good Lord, what did he break now?'. LOL You sent your Naco-lina heat up here to MN! I used to look at that Hot or not site (wire) tehehe! Black Australorp is a friendly chicken! I'd suggest White Delaware as well. And Brown is Brave Chicken! Always enjoy your content. You're making landmarks, it seems! WOOO!!!
If you have a fox problem I'm sure you could find some hunters that can call in fox and coyotes with an electric game caller.the big hay bales make a great place to hide in.
Love the video. Sorry not a lot of narration, not feeling good this past week.
feel better buddy...sorry
I like the cow video the most, I like all the videos.
Been meaning to ask about those feeders & waterers… found the waterer, but only the 6 gallon. Never found the feeders nor the link to Temple.
You’re not an idiot…or stupid…so don’t say that! You’re smart and busy. You just forgot.
I've been thinking about something like that electric fence you have for your chickens to keep groundhogs out of my garden.
they make deer fence and garden fence for that very purpose!
I didn't realize you had Bresse chickens. I just got those too
I havn't butchered any yet....let me say that they eat ALOT!!!!
What length and weight limit on your gooseneck Gator trailer? Looking for something similar for hauling hay!!
Was hear. Wooooo
Nice video ❤❤
Tickle, tickle? LOL! 🦬🤣
Have you considered planting some of your paddocks in native warm season grasses? They thrive on poor soil and dry weather. I've read that planting 25-30% of your pastures in warm season grasses can help avoid the need for hay in the summer. And the cows supposedly gain more weight as well.
great point...but we don't need to plant them...they're already here my friend ...but we need rain to make them grow
If leaving sprinkler on all night is the worst you've done this summer, we'll done perhaps double overseed grass again nice seeing lawn come in, I thought you were going to sing that song 🎵 & you did Josh well done. Is that a yellow rubber chicken in chicken enclosure? Looking great it's really coming together nicely
Have you thought of making Terrence Rows below the garage to slow down erosion?
we just have to get some root structure here....it will take a few years but we'll stop it
Josh, ive got a steer who's name ends with head too. His name starts with S though.
Followed mom too closely? Nursed from the rear. Always stuck in a fence? I set my phones alarm to prevent overwatering otherwise it happens often, usually just a couple of hours extra.😊
mobile farm... reminds of MASH 4077th. Way cool, er stay cool.
Pit a couple of teraces on your hill to slow the water. I think that's what you call it
thought about using those rocks to make a sort of rock check dam to stifle the flow of water down that hill?
Your sense of humor makes me laf so hard.
Lost my girls all but 3 and 2 roosters to weasels. Building a different structure, Aka Fort Klucx lol. Double wire, wire skirt on the ground ,and plywood around the bottom. Unfortunately, I can't do a chicken tractor on my steep yard.
When you think, "did I do x", you should just satisfy your curiosity and save kicking yourself, or you can kick yourself when you check and realize you had done x and got out to check on it when you forgot.😊
Making "to do" lists is easier than ever with smart phones, but one still has to remember to look at the list🙄.
Staying busy means you'll make some human slip ups now and again.
Do you ever have to bring in a hoof trimmer for your cows?
Not unless we have a big problem. Cattle on pasture like this have less hoof issues due to better sanitary conditions
Why not put in a few solar powered sprinkler systems to irrigate the pastures?
Cost about $40k
Get yourself one of those orbit timers for water
Plant new grass in fall
yeppers...gonna have to plant it again for sure
What happen to the chicken tractor I thought that was a great idea? I saw where a farm was using solar pumps to water their pastures, just an idea.
yeppers...our well is solar....but watering 85 acres is a monumental expense and undertaking...the PVC chicken tractor is here...but this is a different setup for grazing and pasture growth
Yea i have to sit a timer on the hose or my phone to remember it is running.
It's not called the stoney ridge for nothing 😅
You ever thought about switching to goats or sheep? Better for the size of your acerage and easier for regenerative agriculture. And dollars out more per acre alot of the times.
It'd to bad that you have no help, but you are doing an amazing job and doing it they only way it should be done. It would be nice if you could get some co-op students who are almost done with their schooling in ag and would help you a lot and give them some real-life experience, which probably 75% of the kids don't have
how bout a life partner/wife....would be nice to have not lost my family this past year also....makes time's tough for sure
Did you get any of the rain Wednesday night through Thursday? We got 2.5-3” here off 158. Nice and slow - almost no runoff. I couldn’t get radar to show part of the time so wasn’t sure about y’all up north.
3.5 inches in 5 hours! Gully washer!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Yikes! Well, that filled the ponds probably. But moved some dirt too.
I take 2 off your hand
What does the Razor Grazer cost?
here's a link for ya www.rangeward.com/products-main/razer-grazer
You say it's you but reference we in other videos. What's the deal?
I'm looking for some help. I have a raccoon problem getting in my sweet corn. I have 10 rows at 30'x160'.
I have 5 strains of the electric rope. My lowest is 5" off the ground then 6" up from the 5 then...
I have scarecrows and I recently bought 4 solar lights/ultrasonic sound noise maker that are motion detected.
Anything else? I can't afford that netting fence.
Down the line is there anyway to attach cattle panels to a T-post and electrify it? I've seen a few here and there on FB Marketplace for $5-$10 I just don't know how you would keep them off the T-post so you could charge them.
Set some live traps with something tastier than corn my friend. Catch them maybe?
Would sod take root on that hill to speed up the process?
Very expensive. A mix of millet, annual rye and the perennial grass of his choice is a good idea. The first two will come up and stabilize. The grass will come up later. The first two will die off but take a while for roots to rot while the grass takes over. Josh probably won't do this as he is picky about how his grass looks and this is an area visitors will see. Barren ruts don't look good. Grass needs lots of water to get established and is almost impossible in the summer.
❤hey what ever happened with the race car that you got
It’s in the shop….more to come soon!
are you missing a donkey, thought you had 2
Got rid of her baby about 2 years ago. He was mean to her and the cows
When are you going to get some pigs
Soon….just takes time and money and cooler weather 😲
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer true
Absent minded…any sod farms nearby or how bout hay mats.
What length and weight limit on your gooseneck Gator trailer? Looking for something similar for hauling hay!!
it's not mine...sorry I couldn't tell ya...but it's way overkill for hauling just hay. Dual tandums...and a ram 5500 ...I'd say this rig could haul what a tractor trailer could haul in the 1970s!